At Naples I picked up a Messageries maritimes steamer and began a circular tour in the Levant.
"The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne"
William J. Locke
Strobo was in Calcutta to meet a friend, an Austrian, who was shortly leaving India in the Messagerie maritimes steamer Dupleix after agreeable wanderings disguised as a fakir in Tibet; and to this friend was attached, in what capacity I never thought well to inquire, a lady who was a Pole, and played and sang as well as Strobo fiddled.
"The Pool in the Desert"
Sara Jeanette Duncan
Also, if I decided to quit the Yorkshire Lass there, I should have the choice of two routes home, namely by Messageries maritimes, via Madagascar and the Suez Canal; or by the Union-Castle Line, via Cape Town and the Atlantic.
"The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn"
Harry Collingwood